Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.
Omen under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. "Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech" (1984) To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. Kate Millettįeminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory (1982) Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture. Raymond, A Passion for Friends (Toward a Philosophy of Female) Men have always been portrayed as “needing” to express their “natural” sexual urges.” This is a very reactionary mentality which in one sense replicates the cultural conception of male sexuality. We confront again the tyranny of feelings, where feelings are portrayed almost as deterministic sexual drives that must be expressed at all costs. “The sadomasochistic mentality and movement assimilate women into a sexual liberation that is none other than the unrestrained expression of male-defined sexual behavior, where sexual liberation is tantamount to doing whatever one “feels” like doing. ― Sheila Jeffreys, Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.” On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. “Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. ― Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
Makeup and the veil may both reveal women’s lack of entitlement.” Makeup, like the veil, ensures that they are masked and not having the effrontery to show themselves as the real and equal citizens that they should be in theory. It could be that the wearing of makeup signifies that women have no automatic right to venture out in public in the west on equal grounds with men. Feminist commentators on the readoption of the veil by women in Muslim countries in the late twentieth century have suggested that women feel safer and freer to engage in occupations and movement in the public world through covering up (Abu-Odeh, 1995). She sees women as having made themselves up as a sign of their new freedom. For instance, the historian of commerce Kathy Peiss suggests that the beauty products industry took off in the USA in the 1920s/1930s because this was a time when women were entering the public world of offices and other workplaces (Peiss, 1998). But in both cases there is considerable evidence of the pressures arising from male dominance that cause the behaviours. I am trying to experience wearing niqab myself, but also to give it a feminist ideological context, by turning all that textile and myself into a walking feminist postersculpture, challenging the cultural norm and the idea of meaning of niqab.īoth the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. The work is inspired with the ways in which western culture perceives eastern culture. As a woman and a feminist, I am mostly focused on retropatriarchy that we see in Islamic countries, that seems to completely contradict what we live in the West, although we meet it frequently on our streets, too. A lot of women that wear niqab say that it makes them feel safe from men, and protected from male gaze, and that's something feminists can understand and appreciate, concerning how much sexual and male violence women endure all over the globe. Perforations festival, Split Perforations festival, Koprivnica
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